Domain history: paid and free services

A lot of tools today can be found on the Internet by any webmaster. Among them, a unique service would be unique, allowing you to learn the history of a domain.

Single service

Unfortunately, there is no such resource yet. But to get a more or less complete picture of the pre-history of the address name, you can use paid services.

1. For example, the domains.checkparams.com portal provides access to its database, from which at least $ 0.10 you can find out about changes in the domain ratings: Yandex - TIC, google - PR, Alexa; As well as changing DNS-records, HTTP-requests and answers.
2. On the portal recipdonor.com for $ 0.01 you can find out the age of the domain, for $ 1 the history of the change in the site's TIC, for $ 3 PR in Google.

These and other similar portals make it easy to study the history of the domain, but at the same time offer other paid services that are freely available. Until now, web builders have to receive disparate data from different sources.

Free access: Whois

The most popular service for checking the domain name for employment is Whois. On its official portal, you can also view DNS-
Records that allow you to find out the provider and corporate e-mail box, if any, from the current domain owner; IP-address of the server (provider); Server response time to the visitor's request.

But the domain history in all this information is not displayed.

Many Internet portals have placed this service on their pages and added
To him something of his own. For example, Reg.ru - a well-known domain name registrar - offers monthly free access to Whois history and hosting. They can use only partners for the sale of domains (to start cooperation requires documentation). One-time request for previous owners from the moment of its registration will cost 90 rubles (much more expensive than previously considered services, but from the very beginning, and not just in recent years).

Available information about any domain

A lot of useful information about a busy domain is available for free at domaintools.com:

• The name of the owner or company to which the site is registered;
• The date of the first registration and the number of entries made since then in the Whois service;
• Hosting name, date of registration and location (country, city);
• The IP address of the server and its type;
• Number of sites on the same server and several specific titles from this list;
• Link to feedback from the domain administrator;
• Date of domain registration on the current user and end date;
• The percentage of relevance (relevance) of the site name to its meta description and keywords;
• A list of these phrases and the meta description itself, compiled by the administrator;
• The index of seo-optimization of the site (in percents) and even a council for improving this indicator;
• Number of images, internal and outgoing links.

The site also provides a list of similar domains that have never been registered. The full history of the domain (including all owners, changing important records) is sold for $ 49. Before buying, the system notifies you how much useful information you will receive so that you do not have to pay for the "zero" report. Thus, using the system, you probably know the age of the site and the presence of its history, without paying a single penny.

History in pictures: Wayback Machine

Many masters know that you can see the content of the domain (home and other pages) using the cache of search engines (archive pages of each site). If he is busy, released or just released, you can see firsthand the theme of the site (what it was or is). To do this, simply type in the address in the search engine and click in the results on the item "Saved copy."

But few people know that all cached pages are stored in the archive and are available for viewing in the free service Wayback Machine, which, like Whois, many sites hosted. To see the history of the domain, on the official service portal you need to enter the web address you are interested in and find the selected number by the calendar. Then click on it and click on the link. The main page will be opened, archived by the search engine on that calendar day. In the database are stored snapshots of sites since 1997.

If you do not find anything, this does not mean that the domain history is missing. It could not be cached by search engines. This happens, but very rarely. First, if the owner has entered into the page code the prohibiting saving tag; Secondly, if the search engine did not manage to cache the site (either the Internet project did not pass the system filters, or closed very quickly).

The portal of Wayback Machine is also useful in that it allows you to find out whether the domain corresponds to your project (check for relevance). For websites that do not have a regional affiliation, it does not matter that the owner has changed, that you can create a site of a different subject, that the search engines will change the delivery according to the new information, it is really important - which Internet users remembered it, what they expect to see, This address.

What is worth paying for?

So, you can check the history of the domain on different web resources both for free and for free. The information they provide is collected by webmasters, rather, to study competitors. Knowing who was the owner and when they registered the given name for the first time, does not give anything. That's really important to know whether he is in the search engine bath, whether he was on the black list of Yandex (the AGS filter) and others, whether he is prohibited from indexing. Therefore, it is worth paying for information about changes in the rating (for example, Yandex TCI). But this information is not essential either. If the new site is constantly checked by search engine robots, then in due course a good Internet resource will prove itself from the positive side and will be "pardoned" if it was on the blacklists. But this will take more than a week.

How to determine if the new site got rid of a load of negative history

When the domain is already purchased, it is possible to understand whether the site is in blacklists, by the way it is indexed. If the system robot constantly updates the information, it is visible in your personal cabinet of the webmaster, and the pages of the site are not indexed for a long time (they are not shown to users in the search engine), so it is in the black list. For example, in the "History" section of Yandex's personal cabinet you can see how the number of pages in the search has changed over time. On the graph, the indicator should grow, preferably in a geometric progression.

For experts in the creation and promotion of sites has always been important history of the domain. However, over time, with changes in the search engines, the need for such information has disappeared. As web developers would say: "This is a dead topic."